Busy...........

This week has been crazy at work. I haven't had the time to write anything this week. We are working on a new marketing program at work that has been taking a lot of time. I am doing a lot of cold calling now trying to find new customers. For the most part I get a few responses a day and a lot of " No thanks". Most people will at least give up an e-mail for us to send some info and a link to our website.

It's all about the dollar, I found this picture yesterday and had to put it in here somehow. We need more money. At least new business or customers with money. I am not picky I just want a pay check and more vacation days.

So I sat down last night and went through my pictures I have on my home computer. Everybody in the house uses the laptop, everybody but Karen, she says every time she wants to use it somebody is on it. Back to my pictures Cody has saved a bunch on there so I copied a few. He is all into BMX these days so naturally he has pictures of that check these out.

Every time I open the computer I have a new screen saver, I like these they are pretty cool. Every time I turn around Cody has a new pile of dirt in the yard, he wants to build something this big but we gonna have to come up with more dirt!

How about this bike, a custom chopper with two seats and gears. I found it on the Bike Snobs blog. He had been to the hand built bicycle show in Seattle. That took a lot of work!

At the same show they had a hand built carbon fiber tandem. You are looking at a 10,000 custom bike. If my wife would ride this thing I would buy it. I don't really want to ride this with my buddies....

I have really tried not to mention this the last few weeks but I came across this picture and I couldn't stand it any longer. We are actually watching a man melt down right before your eyes. You know what Charlie has in common with Nascar. The only reason we watch is for the crash!!  

Well I guess I am about done for the day , haven't had much to say this week . My mind is kinda tired. it will drain you calling all these strange people and kissing so much ass. Hoping to get some new business. Oh well the weekend is around the corner and i am going to play tour guide Saturday. Got a group of friends coming down my way for a road ride in SC.

I like this picture , that's the only reason I put it up here. The river front in Louisville, KY. Pretty sweet looking...............

Late Monday............

Ok I am back , had a busy day yesterday and never even got here. I swear , why are Mondays such a pain in the ass. I am guilty of this also but you ever wonder why people want to be lazy on Friday , knowing they will have to pay for it on Monday! We all get lazy toward the end of the week and don't want to do anything . The attitude is I can just do it on Monday. That will come back and haunt ya......And it did yesterday.....

So we had a good weekend , Karen and Chase went to Kinston and Cody and I went to the lake and tried our hand at fishing. We suck didn't even get a bite , and barely made it back to the truck before the bottom fell out of the sky. In a canoe you better pay attention to what the weather is doing , we where along way from the truck when we decided maybe we need to head toward the dock. It took almost an hour to get back to where we started. In a canoe it takes awhile. Believe it or not I forgot the camera and don't have any pictures from our first trip of the year.

Sunday started with rain and lasted about all day . I made the most of it and spent the day doing the husband thing , went shopping with the wife and basically did what ever she wanted to do. Scored some major points!!!! Rain makes a long day. If it was warm enough I would have rode in the rain anyway but it wasn't so I didn't. Easy as that......

Now to change the subject check out this chart , this is the first stage of the Trans America Bicycle route. When you pay for the maps you get about 12 different maps total. You follow all of these maps and you will and up in Astoria OR. That is a ride of 4264 miles. Most people do it in about 3-months. I may have to ride 1 map a year but damn it I am going to ride this route one of these days.this map will take you 367 miles. The one you order will have a lot more detail in it and all the roads for you to take.

You know we are down here in Charlotte NC and the weather is about a week away from really turning into spring. Then you see these pictures from up north and they are getting hammered by (hopefully) one last snow storm. The top one is of the Mississippi river up toward the Dakotas and the middle one is from the Hudson river up around Hudson NY. The last one is of the Tahoe mountains out west. Thank goodness I live down south.

Don't forget the flooding , this picture is from Ohio. You really take it for granted how good the weather is down here. Here I am , all I am worried about is the time change!!

Ok, I am about done for today . But here is some food for thought. Can you drive this car? I bet your kids can. Mercedes is gonna build this car and instead of a steering wheel you have a joy stick! Fly by wire , I don't think I am ready for this... At least you can drive it from both sides.
   

All Kinda Random Rambling............

Now that's a title! No direction, just thoughts. I love goggle, just type in a word and get all the pictures you want. That's where I keep coming up with so many random shots.

Lets start with Kayaks and Canoes. Tomorrow Karen and Chase are taking Karen's mom out to Kinston, NC for my little nephew's 3rd birthday, Wriston is his name. I like that name very original. Back to kayaks and canoes. With them being gone all day Cody and I are going out on the lake with the, guess what kayak and canoe. Gonna carry the cooler and some snacks and do a little fishing. Little being the key word if you know me, I am not a fisherman!!

Now back to the goggle pictures, checkout these few I found looking for boats. These are dead on what we have I have a canoe and the kid has the kayak. Not that you really care but both of ours are red.

Now these pictures made me look twice! If I ever looked back and saw what this guy saw the shark would have free lunch! I would drop dead of a heart attack and fall right in the water, shark would be feed. End of story. Everybody would stand around at my wake and just shake their head.

How about this shot I got it off a blog I have been following, a couple have been coming down the west coast and stayed in a camp ground that had bear traps set up. That would make it hard for me to sleep I don't know about you but what the hell. They are on bicycles and got there kinda late, leaving and heading to another place was not an option!

Then I have also been following another guy from Canada he is on a 20,000km bike ride around the USA he is in New Mexico right now and got caught in a dust storm the other day, that would suck. Look at those pictures that is dust filling the sky's. This is the middle of the day, dust had the sun even blocked out.  Make your water taste like dirt..

How about this, I have been following this family for two years now. They started their journey in Purdoe Bay Alaska. and are in route to Ushuaia, Tierra Del Fuego. Look that one up; it is like the southern most tip of South America, over 2o,ooo miles from their start point. They have been on the road for 2 years now and are within 320 miles of being there! That's impressive. If you ever want to check them out their web-site is familyonbikes.org

Next we have a little church humor, I love people who have a sense of humor and access to a sign. It is a little hard to read but says---Everybody welcome..no matter how you were raised---

Today I am going to finish this with a truck a grain tower and tell ya what I am going to do.

Get it "kwitcherbitchin". Quit your bitching, KW style..Made ,me laugh anyway.....

Now my grain tower for the day...................and since you have made it to the bottom of the page I have....

Gone riding........Have a nice weekend...................

Chech This out........

My favorite mountain bike club is at it again. This time for the good. I quit going on their website forum, people just make me ill on there so I just stopped checking it out. See I get smarter everyday! But check this out though. It's called the I-5 Colonnade. It is a mtn. bike park out in Seattle WA, the city let them use the space under an interstate overpass in downtown to build all this. From what I understand it has been a very big hit in the community.

That's pretty cool it's got a little bit of everything for people to play on. From easy simple stuff to way hard stuff, it has a little bit of everything .

These pictures are a little hard to vision what it looks like but you get the ideal. They used every bit of space to make this happen. One of the pluses is it got rid of all the homeless who where camping under the overpass. Charlotte has the same problem with the spot they are trying to make this happen in.

These pics are from the area they are trying to put this one. All kinda room under here to make it happen. It would take a lot of work but even my kids would love to play down there. They are going to call it the I-277 Colonnade, because it will be under 277. Makes sense to me..

Believe it or not right beside of this area there is a feed mill I used to haul wheat into. Yep right in downtown Charlotte they have a flour mill. A very big one at that. Look toward the back of these two pictures and you can see the silo's. There is a lot of space available under there. The only thing it is used for right now is trash and homeless camp. I have a friend who owns a body shop on the other side of the interstate, has a lot of trouble out of the campers; he would love to see them gone!

From what I have read they have had a couple of meetings with the city planning office all ready so maybe we are going to see some progress on this. You never know, all kinda red tape involved but ya got to think positive..

Speaking of positive you know what B.S.A. stands for ; Bastard Stopped Again. A friend of mine had one, said he pushed more than rode it. I like the way motorcycles where originally called motor bicycles. Speaking of such you ever seen a bicycle with a motor..

Now you have! You can buy this kit off of E-bay for about two hundred dollars and put it on about any bike you want. I want one!! My life will not be complete until I have built one of these......Now to convince the wife of this....

Oh well thought you might like one more grain tower shot. As you can see it is out in the level land area. Ever heard that saying before, refers to the Midwest............

Towers............

Water Towers..The other day I mentioned water tower pictures, and this is what I found. At least this is what I found until I managed to get a virus from a web site I was searching for more towers on. Then I quit looking, I had other problems then.....

The first one is close to my area, you see this one on the side of 85S at the state line going into Gaffney SC. It looks like a big baby butt from a distance! When I used to truck I always knew I was just about back to Charlotte when I saw this.

I don't know where this one is but I found it also, hard to believe there is more than one peach out in the world. Not sure where Clanton is.

Next we have the world famous mouse, I have seen this one also. Guess where it is, Walt Disney World...

Now we move on to this one, it has to be in the Midwest somewhere. The corn belt of the country. I like the way they have it lit up.

This one will just make you smile, get it smile. It looks like the bald space man in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Think about it and you have seen the episode I am talking about.

Everybody loves the most famous frog in the world. Kermit! He even has his own water tower, again it's got to make you smile.

 

I have seen this one in person, Greensburg KS. I have been through there with my grandparents, I was young and don't really remember why we were there. But I have been there. You might also remember the massive tornado they had there back in May of 2007. They had an F5, the strongest of all tornadoes look at the damage...

There was nothing left after that. They have rebuilt though. The community is thriving once again, which is amazing considering those pictures. Greensburg is only a few miles from my parents home town of Ashland,KS.

Then we have an old timey water tower from Nevada, probably not much on water pressure from this. Although they only use these for the old trains.

Ok, that's about it I went with pictures and not allot of talking today. I just liked all the pictures I found and wanted to share them with you........Later......

Trash.......

Over the weekend I picked up trash. Yep trash you see it every where. Ok here is the deal, I live on a main road. Our lot is what you would call a flag lot; that means I am way off the road and back behind another house. You can't see our house from the road all you see is a driveway that goes down into the trees.

If you are on my front porch looking toward the road you have a tree line to the right side of the driveway and to the left I have my neighbors yard. Then we have a 10 acre field to the left of his yard. We all help keep the field mowed so it looks nice and since we keep it mowed there is nothing to catch the trash. Guess where all the trash ends up! In my woods along the tree line.

About once a month I have to pick up the trash that has accumulated in the woods, if I didn't it would look like shit! Everybody takes pride in their house and yard. At least you hope they do! Well this time around it seemed like I had a lot more than the usual amount in my trees. Two full bags of trash, that is a lot of trash. Two, I repeat two full bags!!!! Go home tonight and dump your trash in the driveway, so you will understand how much crap was thrown out on the side of the road. That is pathetic, since Sunday when I picked all that up I have been looking around and there is trash everywhere.

You ever notice how much trash is laying on the side of the road. What the hell! Can people not put it in trash cans where it belongs. The roads in America are covered in trash. You see pictures of Europe and they don't have that problem, now some countries do but we are the worst. Makes me sick.

What about those adopt a highway signs you see. What a joke, you never see anybody out on their "adopted road" picking up anything. All those signs are a waste, people use them for advertisement and that is it. Whoever the brain surgeon is who came up with the plan to let people "advertise" needs his ass kicked. That was a good ideal in theory but in reality it is a joke. People have taken advantage of it and nobody is doing their part, keeping the road clean.

They need to give the police the authority to give company's a big fine if they are just using the signs for advertisement. It's not hard to see what they are doing, if the road is all trashy give them a fine!!!

Oh well tonight I will do my community service and clean the ditch across the street from me. I feel like a convict!! I did nothing wrong but I get to walk the ditch.................

Here we go I found water tower pictures. One of these days I will tell the story of when we were kids and used to go swimming in a water tower in the summer. Yes, we got in BIG trouble........